HP Linux Imaging And Printing Project 1.6.7 access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in HP Linux Imaging And Printing Project 1.6.7. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2008-2940. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in HP Linux Imaging And Printing Project 1.6.7 (Printing Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The alert-mailing implementation in HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 1.6.7 allows local users to gain privileges and send e-mail messages from the root account via vectors related to the setalerts message, and lack of validation of the device URI associated with an event message.

The bug was discovered 08/12/2008. The weakness was published 08/14/2008 by Marc Schoenefeld as Bug 455235 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-2940 since 06/30/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 67736 (Oracle Linux 5 : hplip (ELSA-2008-0818)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165681 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update (SUSE-SR:2008:021)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (44441), Tenable (67736), SecurityFocus (BID 30683†), OSVDB (47599†) and Secunia (SA31470†). Similar entries are available at VDB-43001, VDB-43708, VDB-43701 and VDB-44479. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Partially
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Nessus ID: 67736
Nessus Name: Oracle Linux 5 : hplip (ELSA-2008-0818)
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OpenVAS ID: 61956
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: hplip
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: hp.com

Advisory: Bug 455235
Researcher: Marc Schoenefeld
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2008-2940 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-2940
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-43700

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X-Force: 44441
SecurityFocus: 30683 - HP Linux Imaging and Printing System Privilege Escalation And Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 31470 - HPLIP hpssd Denial of Service, Not Critical
OSVDB: 47599 - HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) alert-mailing privilege escalation
SecurityTracker: 1020684
Vulnerability Center: 19168 - HP Linux Imaging and Printing 1.6.7 Alert-Mailing Implementation Allows Local Privilege Escalation, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 12:19
Updated: 08/15/2019 17:29
Changes: 03/17/2015 12:19 (84), 08/15/2019 17:29 (5)
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